Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12 / Matthew 8:23-27
To meet up with someone is quite different from going for a meeting.
To meet up with someone will more likely to be a time of personal conversations and renewing of relationships.
To go for a meeting would be more likely to be a time of discussion over work matters or for some formal matters.
Whenever we talk about meeting God, we would think of it happening in eternity and it would be a happy and joyful meeting.
But for God to summon us to a meeting is as chilling as our boss calling us up to meet up to him.
We may have an idea of what is the meeting for, and we know that God is going to address a serious issue with us.
In the 1st reading, after pointing out the faults of His people, God says this: This therefore, Israel, is what I plan to do to you, and because I am going to do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.
That will certainly be a stormy meeting, much like the storm that the disciples were in, and they thought they were going to meet their God.
And they did meet God, when Jesus calmed the storm, and they wondered who Jesus is, that even the winds and the sea obey Him.
Let us not wait for a storm to push us into meeting God.
Let us have a peaceful and joyful meeting with Him in prayer, and He will calm the winds and the storms in our hearts.